Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs